Built from
the inside out.
I'm a grandfather, a father, and a husband. Before anything else, that's who I am. This site exists because of what those roles taught me — that wisdom isn't worth anything if you keep it to yourself.
I didn't start in business. I started in the community — in the places most people drive past, with the people most systems forget. Showing up at 2am when nobody else would.
Every product I've built started the same way. I saw something broken that was hurting real people, and I couldn't walk past it. So I built the thing I wished existed. Not for the market. For the person I used to be.
I've failed more times than most people have tried. Wrong partnerships. Wrong timing. Wrong assumptions. Businesses that didn't make it. Decisions that cost me everything I had. More than fifty times I've been knocked down — and every single time, I got back up and built something better.
That's not a sob story. That's the recipe. The people who win aren't the ones who never fail — they're the ones who refuse to stay down. Every failure taught me something I couldn't have learned any other way. And now I build differently because of it.
Your main purpose for starting a business should be to solve a problem for the marketplace — and then make a profit.
That's what "Ask Yr Grandpa" is — wisdom and knowledge sharing from two decades of experience, for anyone willing to listen. No gatekeeping. No price tag on the lessons. Just everything I've learned, passed down the way it should be.
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."Michael Jordan — and the same applies here.